English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 13
So he set out to find Burd Ellen.
Who acts: Merlin · What happens: set out, find · To what, where: Burd
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Merlin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | xcomp |
| 7 | Burd | Burd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| 8 | Ellen | Ellen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Burd | flat |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | Merlin | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | Merlin not said here | Burd | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burd=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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